– The 18-24 age group has the highest incidence of smartphone ownership (13%).

Smartphone Usage (projected)

22 million use their smart phones for social networking;

24 million use it for running online searches. 19 million smartphone users are chatting and using webmail.

16 million users view streaming video, and use smartphones for maps and navigation.

8 million smart phone users use it for banking & finance, travel, shopping and accessing other web portals

As far as sampling is concerned, the above data is a result of survey that covered 10,464 respondents all over Urban India – so the Pluggd.in’s word of caution applies (read: Why and How to read survey reports).